My soul extols the mighty Lord

Verse 1
My soul extols the mighty Lord,
In God the Saviour joys my heart:
Thou hast not my low state abhorr’d;
Now know I, thou my Saviour art.

Verse 2
Sorrow and sighs are fled away,
Peace now I feel, and joy and rest:
Renew’d I hail the festal day,
Henceforth by endless ages blest.

Verse 3
Great are the things which thou has done,
How holy is thy name, O Lord!
How wondrous is thy mercy shewn
To all that tremble at thy word!

Verse 4
Thy conqu’ring arm with terror crown’d
Appear’d the humble to sustain:
And all the sons of pride have found
Their boasted wisdom void and vain.

Verse 5
The mighty from their native sky,
Cast down thou hast in darkness bound:
And rais’d the worms of earth on high
With majesty and glory crown’d.

Verse 6
The rich have pin’d amidst their store,
Nor e’er the way of peace have trod;
Mean while the hungry souls thy pow’r
Fill’d with the fulness of their God.

Verse 7
Come, Saviour, come, of old decreed!
Faithful and true be thou confest:
By all earth’s tribes in Abraham’s seed
Henceforth thro’ endless ages blest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "The Magnificat." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 120.
Publishing: Public Domain